Re: [newbie] Laptop Installation problem

2005-01-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
András Keszei wrote: Sort of hijacking here, but does anyone know if is it possible in any way to install mandrake on a laptop that has no CD or floppy drive. I have a machine that's like this, and it could also help Aron stay with the wonderful world of mandrake. I have googled, but haven't found

Re: [newbie] Laptop Installation problem

2005-01-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2005 05:28 pm, Aron Smith wrote: I have an old Compaq Armada here with no CD-ROM by removing the HDD (6Gb) and u7sing an adapter I was able to install ? Mdk 10.1 on the drive. After reinstalling the drive I find that I have a

Re: [newbie] Laptop Installation problem

2005-01-06 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 11:30 pm, John Layt wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:17, András Keszei wrote: > > As during the install the kernel is configured to make the most > > of the machine it was installed on, it will panic when it finds itself > > surrounded an unknown processor, mainboard, etc

Re: [newbie] Laptop Installation problem

2005-01-06 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 11:07 pm, András Keszei wrote: > > Thanks gang am giving up on using Mandrake on that POS will try Damn > > Small Linux (Hey it only takes 12 floppys) > > Sort of hijacking here, but does anyone know if is it possible in any > way to install mandrake on a laptop that ha

Re: [newbie] Laptop Installation problem

2005-01-05 Thread András Keszei
> Thanks gang am giving up on using Mandrake on that POS will try Damn Small > Linux (Hey it only takes 12 floppys) Sort of hijacking here, but does anyone know if is it possible in any way to install mandrake on a laptop that has no CD or floppy drive. I have a machine that's like this, and it c

Re: [newbie] Laptop Installation problem

2005-01-05 Thread John Layt
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:17, András Keszei wrote: > As during the install the kernel is configured to make the most > of the machine it was installed on, it will panic when it finds itself > surrounded an unknown processor, mainboard, etc. The only way you could > have gotten away with it, is if you

Re: [newbie] Laptop Installation problem

2005-01-05 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 09:17 pm, András Keszei wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 12:28, Aron Smith wrote: > > I have an old Compaq Armada here with no CD-ROM by removing the HDD (6Gb) > > and u7sing an adapter I was able to install ? Mdk 10.1 on the drive. > > After reinstalling the drive I fin

Re: [newbie] Laptop Installation problem

2005-01-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2005 05:28 pm, Aron Smith wrote: I have an old Compaq Armada here with no CD-ROM by removing the HDD (6Gb) and u7sing an adapter I was able to install ? Mdk 10.1 on the drive. After reinstalling the drive I find that I have a problem Kernel panic : No i

Re: [newbie] Laptop Installation problem

2005-01-05 Thread András Keszei
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 12:28, Aron Smith wrote: > I have an old Compaq Armada here with no CD-ROM by removing the HDD (6Gb) and > u7sing an adapter I was able to install ? Mdk 10.1 on the drive. > After reinstalling the drive I find that I have a problem > Kernel panic : No init found Try passingi

Re: [newbie] Laptop Installation problem

2005-01-05 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 05:28 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > I have an old Compaq Armada here with no CD-ROM by removing the HDD (6Gb) > and u7sing an adapter I was able to install ? Mdk 10.1 on the drive. > After reinstalling the drive I find that I have a problem > Kernel panic : No init found Try

[newbie] Laptop Installation problem

2005-01-05 Thread Aron Smith
I have an old Compaq Armada here with no CD-ROM by removing the HDD (6Gb) and u7sing an adapter I was able to install ? Mdk 10.1 on the drive. After reinstalling the drive I find that I have a problem Kernel panic : No init found Try passingi nit= optionn to kernel So what do I do now (oboviousl